84 E

[jak10x]

What do you use to clean barrels on your 84 E Free Pistols?

Just a Nylon brush or more?

Thanks, John

[Cricman]

I usually run a bore snake through the bore after matches and practice sessions. Once or twice a year, I do a little more thorough a job, and use a solvent and patches and spend time cleaning the breach block and extractor area. Same for my TOZ. The semi autos get a little bit more attention after matches and practices.

cricman

[shadow]

Do you use the Bore Snake with the wire brush or have you removed it?

[JAK10X]

Not sure you can get a Bore snake through an 84 E unless you take the grip off?

John

[Cricman]

I use a snake that is about 10 years old, and the bristle are bent over from use on other firearms. They have very little contact with the chamber and bore. Though I doubt that the bristles on a new snake would cause measurable damage at the cyclic rate that I clean (read "use") my 84E! I think the greater problem with brushes happens when the operator vigorously spins it in the chamber area or reverses it, mid-bore or mid-chamber.

And yes, you can use a snake without removing the grip: Drop the block (and insure that the weapon is clear of live ammunition), insert the brass-weighted end like a round of ammunition, feed the chord- muzzle down, turn the gun over, angle the bore 45 degrees (muzzle up), and slowly draw the snake through.


Of course, your mileage may vary.

cricman

[Mark Briggs]

I've found VFG cleaning felts to be excellent. At the range I'm too lazy to assemble a cleaning rod so I just use a plastic pull-through with the VFG felts. The pull-through is actually a piece of .080" plastic cord from a string trimmer (weed eater, whipper snipper, whatever you want to call those devices designed to leave your ankles bleeding while the weeds laugh at you unmercilessly! LoL). Take a match or cigarette lighter and melt one end of the cord so as to form a "blob" of plastic which will act as a retainter for the cleaning felt. Now all you have to do is slide a cleaning felt down the cord until it hits the big blob of plastic and is held in place.

My first felt gets a few drops of CLP which seems to act pretty well as both solvent and lubricant. The second and/or third felts are pulled through dry (always from the breech end so the last thing the felt touches is the muzzle).

I don't make any money on recommending the VFG felts, but rather I find them to be quite handy. Since I'm essentially lazy I know that if I had to use other methods the pistols would be cleaned far less frequently, so a $25 bag of felts is an investment in a few years of good pistol cleanliness.

Hope this helps!

[Mellberg]

Not sure you can get a Bore snake through an 84 E unless you take the grip off?

John

Why not? The boresnake is not stiff. It will go through an 84E without even a hint of a problem. In fact you can either go through the hole in the back of the grip or you can just shove it in like a cartridge.

I can't imagine one single .22lr weapon that a boresnake can't get through 'cause it would make the gun more or less unable to shoot/function.

If you can extract a shell you can get the boresnake through the barrell.

Bu the way, even if the boresnake was stiff like a rod you could easily clean it through the hole in the back of the grip...

[jrmcdaniel]

If you don't have enough room in the breech, cut a bit off the brass weight. It does not take much weight to pull the cord through the barrel.